That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

Letting go isn’t about forgetting

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.

When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, political activity, and so on and so forth.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.